Open alaw file

alaw file icon Did your computer fail to open alaw file? We explain what alaw files are and recommend software that we know can open your alaw files.

What is alaw file?

Files with alaw file extension can be typically encountered as audio files saved in the A-law G.711 European telephony file format.

alaw file description

The alaw file extension is associated with the A-law G.711 European telephony file format.

G.711 is an ITU-T standard for audio companding. It is primarily used in telephony. The standard was released for usage in 1972.

G.711 represents logarithmic pulse-code modulation (PCM) samples for signals of voice frequencies, sampled at the rate of 8000 samples/second.

Software that will open alaw file

Awave Studio

Audio editting software with huge format support

What file extension actually is?

Simply put, file extensions are the characters after the dot in the file name, so for example filename.mp3 has file extension „mp3“. This helps Windows to identify which program should be used to open the file.

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